Method for organizing and preparing photogenerated printing media

Abstract

A method and apparatus for organizing and preparing photogenerated printing media for multi-page printing including a method and the apparatus for carrying out the method in which the sequence in which the proof pages of the pages to be printed are to be sorted and arranged, are recorded on a film strip and the film strip is transorted through a viewer. The film strip is viewed through a viewer and the pages are sorted and arranged. The sorted and arranged papers are then affixed to segments of a conveyer sheet advanced through a paste-up machine. The sheet, after the proof pages have been affixed thereto is transported across a copy board and the images of the copy to be printed and which appear on the proof pages affixed to the conveyer sheet are photographically reproduced on a strip of roll film advanced through a camera. The film is then processed and the processed film is used to photosensitize printing plates.

What is claimed: 
     
       1. A method for preparing proof copy page lay-outs for multi-page printing comprising the steps of recording at predetermined spaced intervals on a film the page sequence in which such pages are to be printed, advancing a conveyer sheet through a first conveyer sheet holder and stopping said sheet in said first holder after a predetermined length of said conveyer sheet has been advanced, advancing said recorded film a predetermined length to expose said film for viewing of the intervals of said page printing sequence and stopping said film, after stopping the advance of said conveyer sheet and said film affixing to said conveyer sheet at pre-determined intervals across said conveyer sheet and in the sequence exposed for viewing on said film the proof copy pages of the pages to be printed, after said proof copy pages have been affixed to said conveyer sheet, advancing said conveyer sheet with said proof copy pages affixing thereto through a second conveyer sheet holder and stopping said conveyer sheet in said second conveyer sheet holder after a pre-set segment length of said conveyer sheet has been advanced through said second sheet holder, advancing a pre-set length of photosensitive film and stopping said photosensitive film and, after each pre-set segment of said conveyer sheet and said pre-set length of said pre-set length of said photosensitive film have been advanced and while said conveyer sheet is stopped in said second sheet holder and said photosensitive film is stopped, reproducing the images of said proof copy pages affixed to said conveyer sheet onto said photosensitive film and, thereafter, reproducing the images of said proof page copy on said photosensitive film onto a printing plate for use in said multi-page printing.